PTOLEMY, Claudius.
[Incunable map of Persia]Quinta Asie Tabula.Ulm, Johan Reger, 1482-86. Original hand colour with blue finishing on the sea area and rivers. Woodcut, 385 x 555mm. Minor restoration near centrefold;A very early map of Persia, with metal-type lettering within a coloured trapezoid border, with a Latin-text on verso with a coloured capital. The map was originally published in 1482 by Lienhart Holle in an edition of Ptolemy’s 'Geography' with revisions by the cartographer Nicolaus Germanus Donis. This was the first European atlas published outside Italy and the first to be illustrated with woodcut maps. Soon afterwards Holle went bankrupt, probably because of the cost of producing the atlas, and Reger acquired the rights to the 'Geography', reissuing the second and last edition in 1486.
[Ref: 9281]
£6,500.00
($8,626 • €7,501 rates)

SPEED, John.
[17th Century English carte à figure map of Persia]The Kingdome of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described.London: George Humble, 1627. 390 x 510mm. A fine, dark impression.A 17th century map of Persia, published in John Speed's 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World', the first English atlas of the world. It is decorated with four city prospects (Isfahan, Ormus, Tabriz & Gilan) along the top and with eight costume vignettes down the sides. The Caspian Sea still has not been mapped properly: it is shown wider than it is tall.
[Ref: 16810]
£1,850.00
($2,455 • €2,135 rates)

SPEED, John.
[17th century English carte à figure map of Persia]The Kingdome of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described.London: William Humble, 1646. Coloured. 390 x 510mm. A very fine exampleA very decorative map of Persia, published in John Speed's 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World', the first English atlas of the world. It is decorated with four city prospects (Isfahan, Ormus, Tabriz & Gilan) along the top and with eight costume vignettes down the sides. The Caspian Sea still has not been mapped properly: it is shown wider than it is tall.
[Ref: 18040]
£2,200.00
($2,919 • €2,539 rates)

FRESCHOT, Casimir Don.
[An extremely rare miniature map of Persia](116) Persia in Asia. ha il suo Imperatore ò Sophy. di Religione Mahemetana. Longhessa 600. leghe incira.Venice: Giovanni Pare', c. 1680. Sheet 51 x 51mm. Trimmed from a large broadsheet.Don Casimir Freschot, a Benedictine Priest and author of about 50 books on history and Venice, composed a 'goose game', 'Geografia ridotta a giuoco per istruttione della giovane nobiltà veneziana', to facilitate "the teaching of geography to the young Venetian nobility", of which this map was a section. Engraved by Anton Francesco Lucini, this was probably the earliest geographical game to be published. The 'board' comprised 153 squares containing small maps, arranged in a spiral, with a plan of Venice at the centre. Above the game were four larger maps of the continents, the rules, including the prizes and forfeits for landing on squares, and a dedication. There is only one known complete example, in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. Even incomplete examples are extremely rare."Charta Geographica" magazine, vol.1, page 76; plus insert with facsimile broadsheet.
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£320.00
($425 • €369 rates)

MOORE, Jonas.
[Seventeenth century map of Persia]Persia.London, Robert Scott, 1681. 175 x 215mm.Rare map of Persia, published in 'Moore's ''A new Geography with the maps to each Country and Tables of Longitude & Latitiude'.
[Ref: 16800]
£320.00
($425 • €369 rates)

RABATTA, Augusto & BAILOU, Jean Baptist de.
[An 18th century playing-card of Persia]R. di Farsistan anticamente Persia, et Elam del proprio Soffi.Florence: Aniello Lamberti, 1779. Original colour. Sheet size 110 x 70mm.A rare miniature map of Persia engraved by Lamberti for the 'Minchiate', the Florentine version of the Tarot, which had each card marked with an arcane symbol. The full set was published in Augusto Da Rabatta and Jean Baptiste De Baillou's pocket atlas 'Nuovo Atlante Generale'. Information on the map is minimal, but an extensive key gives the names of the various regions.
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£450.00
($597 • €519 rates)

TALLIS, John.
[Map of Persia with vignettes]Persia.London: J. & F. Tallis, c.1851. Original outline colour. Printed area 350 x 255mm.Detailed map of Iran, drawn and engraved by John Rapkin, with a vignette view of Ispahan, and depictions of a mounted Persian, Kurds and a camel.
[Ref: 18521]
£125.00
($166 • €144 rates)